My love of natural places and their wild inhabitants stretches back as long as I can remember. Growing up, I spent countless hours wandering the mountains and streams of northwestern North Carolina. That interest was rekindled and strengthened in adulthood when my then five-year old son and I began what evolved into a nearly 20-year backpacking partnership.

Like backpacking, photography encourages a slower, more observant pace; I find the two interests imminently compatible. Over time, photography became the primary focus of my time outdoors, but only later in life did I begin to market the results of my photographic efforts.

Though I have photographed in many corners of the US and elsewhere, my work is concentrated on the southern Appalachian Mountains in general and the Blue Ridge region in particular. Regardless of the geographic area involved, my photography is driven by two primary goals. First, I seek to accurately and faithfully record natural places and share them, through my photographs, with others. More importantly, I hope to inspire at least some viewers of my images to a greater appreciation of and concern for those few wild or largely unspoiled places that still exist.

I strongly believe that the quality of human existence would be significantly diminished if we had no wild places to experience, no wild creatures to observe. I hope that my photography helps to encourage preservation of such places by providing others the opportunity to view images of nature's design.